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WORSE THAN WATERGATE: Surveillance on Trump Began Before he was Nominee, and had Nothing to do with Russia

We’ve learned the surveillance that led to the unmasking of U.S citizens started way before President Trump was even the GOP nominee, and had nothing to do with Russia.

A Fox News report cited sources which indicate House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) knew of the existence of a report since January, which proved President Trump’s allegations, but one or more intelligence agencies blocked him. There were only two locations where he could view the information on Trump surveillance that he called “very troubling.” Nunes met with sources on White House grounds on the day before he announced to reporters the news about what he had seen.

This new and disturbing information indicated intelligence officials under the Obama administration “unmasked” the names of Trump team members who were incidentally surveilled. Nunes was heavily criticized at the time for the way he handled the reporting of this information.

This is the Timeline:

On Thursday, the New York Times began reporting what they claimed were the identities of two White House officials who were the sources of the information disclosed to Nunes. However, this reporting by the New York Times was inaccurate.

Then Friday another Fox News report cited “a number of sources” with claims that not only were the two White House officials reported on by the NY Times not the sources of the information shared with Nunes, but that Nunes knew of the information in January, and that the agencies where the information came from had blocked Nunes from gaining access to it. Further, the report cited officials within the agencies who said they were frustrated with the spreading of names for political purposes.

“Our sources, who have direct knowledge of what took place, were upset because those two individuals, they say, had nothing to do with the outing of this information,” Fox reported.

“This led to other surveillance which led to multiple names being unmasked. Again these are private citizens in the United States,” said Housley. “This had nothing to do with Russia, I’m told, or foreign intelligence of any kind.”

The two named in Thursday’s reports as the sources of the information in those stories were not Nunes’ sources. “It was a navigation situation and the reason why they had to navigate, I’m told, is that Nunes learned about this unmasking and who this was, taking place back in January.”

“It took, obviously, a number of weeks to try to figure out a way for him to see this intelligence, because the agencies were stonewalling, we’re told, to allow him and others to see it,” said Housley. “This is all coming from folks that are in these agencies and frustrated with the politics that is taking place in these agencies.”

“We’re told that the main issue here is not only the unmasking of the names, but the spreading of names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security and everything to do with hurting and embarrassing Trump and his team,” reported Housley.

“Fox also learned that an individual with direct knowledge that after Nunes had been approached by his source, the agencies basically would not allow him in at all,” said Housley.

Nunes and the White House have faced heated questions from the press about Nunes’ viewing of the information on White House grounds; however, the Fox report added that there were only two places where Nunes could have viewed the information. One was at the agencies where the information came from, which the reporting notes would have put the source at risk, and the other location was on the 18-acre White House grounds. Now we understand why Nunes went to the White House to view the information, which was something he could not explain at the time. Housley noted the Old Executive Office Building is on White House grounds where highly sensitive information may be accessed after hours.

The plot thickens as we now know the real story is not Russian interference, but surveillance, and the unmasking of Americans during the choosing of the GOP presidential nominee.

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Written by Rosie OnTheRight

Rosie grew up watching CSpan she is a contributing writer for silenceisconsent.net, libertyeagle.com